Bacula-Web 8.7.0
I’m pleased to announce that Bacula-Web 8.7.0 has been released.
This release bring a minor feature (volume details page) and several bug fixes.
Here’s a summary of the changes included in this release
- you can list jobs attached to a volume aside of some volume details
- a Docker image is now availabe on Docker Hub
- no more errors if you disable user authentication (while using basic http auth or LDAP)
- versions of PHP prior version 7.4 is not supported anymore
- code has been fixed and refactored, really a lot …
For more details, the release notes is available on GitHub.
Important note
Kind reminder, since release v8.6.0, Apache, Nginx or Lighttpd document root folder muse be set as below
WEB_SERVER_ROOT/bacula-web/public
In this example, you can replace WEB_SERVER_ROOT by /var/www/html (adapt to your environement
As usual, I strongly encourage everyone to upgrade to the latest release.
Please note that I’ve added some informations related to security in the security chapter of the documentation
What’s coming next ?
Here’s a short list of what you could expect from next releases
- release frequency will be shorter (I’ll change how I plan and prepare releases in the future)
- more improvements with translations
- and even much more …
Download
Bacula-Web release 8.7.0 Composer package, and sha signature files are available using the link below
https://github.com/bacula-web/bacula-web/releases/tag/v8.7.0
Install / Upgrade
Please follow installation or upgrade guides
Bacula-Web documentation is kindly hosted by ReadTheDocs <3
Note
This release have been tested on the platform listed below
- FreeBSD 14.0 using PHP 8.0.25
- Centos 8 Stream using PHP 7.4
- Centos 8 Stream using PHP 8.0
- Debian 11 (Bullseye) using PHP 7.4
- Debian 11 (Bullseye) using PHP 8.1
- Debian 10 (Buster) using PHP 8.0
- Fedora 36 using PHP 8.1.12
- Fedora 37 using PHP 8.1.12
- Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) using PHP 7.4.3
- Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy JellyFish) using PHP 8.1
How to get help ?
You can submit new a bug report or feature request on the GitHub project
Please use Github discussions to ask a question or give a feedback
Community
I’d like to thanks all contributors for your feedbacks, help and precious contributions. Without you, this release wouldn’t be possible.
Thanks for using and supporting Bacula-Web project